Poetry in Queens
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Helen
Marshall with
Julio Marzan (c.), the fourth
Queens Poet Laureate, and
James Muyskens, President
of Queens College |
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poetry copyright © the artist. |
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The Borough President's Office is pleased
to present poetry written by the Queens Poets Laureate.
All
poetry Copyright © the artist.
Poems by Julio Marzan
4TH Poet Laureate
FELINE
Make poetry a cat,
inspiration bones,
each word a leap
of subtlest paws.
Make song its purr,
ambiguity eyes,
sudden bristle
of lustrous metaphor.
Make it to stray,
indebted to none,
lick every heart
as if it were yours.
UTOPIA PARKWAY
Airport fumes
always transport me
to that island
no longer mapped,
and my wheels
touch that life
always dreamed
from New York,
where on clear days
when no overcast
traps fumes,
my bones remind
I am from nowhere
and from there
I write about me.
BIOGRAPHY of JULIO MARZAN
JULIO MARZAN (1946) has published two books of poetry, TRANSLATIONS
WITHOUT ORIGINALS (I. Reed Books) and PUERTA
DE TIERRA (Univ.
of Puerto Rico Press).
His poems have appeared in numerous journals, among them, Parnassus:
Poetry in Review, Massachusetts
Review, Tin
House, New Letters, Harper's Magazine,
and .ABC_Madrid.
His poems also appear in several anthologies and college
texts, among them THE BEDFORD INTRODUCTION
TO LITERATURE and LATINO
BOOM: AN ANTHOLOGY OF U.S. LATINO LITERATURE.
In 2002 he published his translations and selections of
the poetry of Luis Palés Matos in SELECTED
POEMS: THE POETRY OF LUIS PALÉS
MATOS. (Arte Público).
His non-fiction books include LUNA,
LUNA: CREATIVE WRITING IDEAS FROM SPANISH, LATIN AMERICAN
AND LATINO LITERATURE (Teachers & Writers
Collaborative) and the groundbreaking
THE SPANISH AMERICAN ROOTS OF
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (University of
Texas Press).
A professor of English at Nassau Community
College, in spring 2006 he was Visiting Professor of Romance
Languages at Harvard University. A resident of Queens for
most of his adult life, he graduated from Cardinal Hayes
High School and later studied at Fordham University (B.A.),
Columbia University (M.F.A.), and New York University (Ph.D.).
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